Re: Using float emulator on a system with FPU?

[Chris D. Faulhaber]

On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote:

> On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> > <<On Mon, 12 Jul 1999 11:28:04 +0200, Martin Cracauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > 
> > > I'm going to work on FreeBSD's floating point support, but I need to
> > > test my changes on systems using the FPU emulators (non-GPL and GPL). 
> > 
> > I suggested about half a year ago that we should officially desupport
> > non-FPU configurations in 4.0.  Unfortunately, my resolution was
> > soundly defeated.
> 
> Why shouldn't we? Noone uses machines without FPUs anymore. What non-ancient
> CPU doesn't have an FPU? And we're talking about the i386 family here...
> 

Embedded systems, anyone?

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